Here's some quotes from the book about some of Andy's earlier adventures and misadventures in personality figures:
Chapter 2:
The November, 1993 Brochure also debuted King & Country’s personality figures, Elvis Presley (EP), Charlie Chaplin (CC) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (SPB) (how K&C managed to avoid being sued by Apple Records or the estates of Elvis and Chaplin I have no idea, especially since it was sued for producing a Patton figure by Patton's estate).
King & Country produced the young ‘blue suede shoes’ Elvis, standing leaning to the right, holding a microphone stand with his right hand, the neck of a slung guitar with his left hand, wearing his signature pompador, a yellow jacket over a blue shirt, black pants, and, of course, blue suede shoes. Elvis originally retailed for $14.
Charlie Chaplin is depicted in his famous ‘little tramp’ persona, standing with his feet turned out, right hand on his hip, leaning on his trademark cane with his left hand, wearing a black derby hat with blue band, black jacket, gray vest, baggy blue-gray pants, and oversized shoes. The little tramp also originally retailed for $14.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band appear with John, Paul, George & Ringo standing and attired exactly as they were on the album cover, behind the bass drum and the floral carpet spelling out “Beatles”. This set, along with the Teddy Roosevelt, were the first sets available in both glossy and matt. The Beatles originally retailed for $70.
Chapter 3:
The 1991-1992 Post card catalogue indicated that, available in mid-June, 1992, King & Country would release . . . the rest of the "Commemorative Editions", . . . (including a Churchill Figure and a Captain Clark Gable Figure).
United States Army Air Force Captain Clark Gable stands with his hands in his pockets, wearing tan pants, a tan trench coat, windblown back and to the right, and an Air Force Captain’s peaked cap. He has a mustache and the famous “Clark Gable smile” . The figure originally retailed for $14. How Andy managed to produce this figure without being sued by MGM or Gable’s estate escapes the author.
Chapter 6:
DD22 (Patton's Command Car) [was] released by March, 2001.
Patton's Command Car was the second vehicle K&C produced initially with solid sculpted wheels, and later in an improved rolling version. The initial solid cast vehicle had substantial crud in the wheel wells, and both versions had crud around the bumper. The set came with a seated driver, seated guard, a realistic Patton figure and Patton’s dog, an American Bull Terrier (like Spuds MacKenzie). Andy’s long streak of luck in avoiding lawsuits for the reproduction of images of copyrighted personalities ended with the Patton figure. Andy settled the lawsuit for $4,000, not an insignificant amount considering the fact that less than 500 of this vehicle, which retailed for $89, were produced.
